Southampton are going to win the Premier League, PLUS nine other things we learned from the weekend's football

On the up: Adam Lallana is leading the way for the Saints (Image: Mike Hewitt)

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1. Southampton are going to win the league

The ‘top’ teams are dropping points all over the place, predominantly against each other, but Pochettino’s boys are motoring on, beating Hull 4-1 at the weekend.

If they can keep this up, they’ll be home and hosed by early April.

2. Tribute away kits need to stop

After Hull were spanked by Southampton while dressed up as France’s 1998 World Cup winners, Newcastle turned out at White Hart Lane dressed as Brazil.

What is this, some kind of football version of Stars In Their Eyes?

3. Gazprom has a company song!

"Let’s drink to you, let’s drink to us, let’s drink to all the Russian gas, for those extracting the new sun, from down beneath the ground" blares the chorus.

Remember kids: drink Gazprom responsibly.

4. Martin Jol is doomed

We know it, you know it, he knows it. Whe man has got ‘dead man walking’ written on his forehead. It’s not if, it’s when.

5. Mark Hughes might not be far behind him

Stoke are now without a win since August and the goals have even dried up for hotshot keeper Asmir Begovic.

6. The word ‘Pogba’ is probably banned at Old Trafford

He left Manchester United for Juventus on a free in 2012 after failing to impress Fergie, but now Paul Pogba is one of the best young players in the world, scoring the latest in a long line of memorable goals on Sunday night against Napoli.

Wonder what David Moyes would give to have him on his books…

7. Don’t get in a ding-dong with Sepp Blatter

According the great man ahead of a fact-finding mission to Qatar, "a clock has a ding-dong. I have listened to the ding from lots of journalists... and critics, and I am going there to listen to the dong."

Pictures of Blatter with the "dong" will not be required.

(Image: Stuart Franklin - FIFA)

8. Gus Poyet has turned Sunderland into Brazil

Previously the Premier League’s biggest bunch of headless chickens, the Black Cats are starting enjoy possession again, and they passed Manchester City into submission yesterday.

Helpfully, when it was time to defend, Wes Brown put in a superlative performance at centre half. Sunderland to finish runners up behind Southampton.